To cite package 'BENMMI' in publications use:

Dennis Walvoort [aut, cre], Willem van Loon [aut, cph] (2019). Benthic Multi-Metric Index. R package version 4.3-6. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BENMMI

Willem van Loon, Dennis Walvoort, Gert van Hoey, Christina Vina-Herbon, Abigayil Blandon, Roland Pesch, Petra Schmidt, Jorg Scholle, Karin Heyer, Marc Lavaleye, Graham Philips, Gerard Duineveld, Mats Blomqvist, 2018. A regional benthic fauna assessment method for the Southern North Sea using Margalef diversity and reference value modelling Ecological Indicators 89:667-679.

The first citation refers to the BENMMI-package, the second citation to the methodology implemented in the BENMMI-package.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {Benthic Multi-Metric Index},
    author = {Dennis Walvoort and Willem {van Loon}},
    year = {2019},
    note = {R package version 4.3-6},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BENMMI},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A regional benthic fauna assessment method for the
      Southern North Sea using Margalef diversity and reference value
      modelling},
    author = {Willem {van Loon} and Dennis Walvoort and Gert {van Hoey}
      and Christina Herbon and Abigayil Blandon and Roland Pesch and
      Petra Schmidt and Jorg Scholle and Karin Heyer and Marc Lavaleye
      and Graham Philips and Gerard Duineveld and Mats Blomqvist},
    journal = {Ecological Indicators},
    year = {2018},
    volume = {89},
    pages = {667-679},
  }